IP Library Patent Application 10562570
Patent Application
App. No. 10/562,570

Air Freshener Package

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App. No.
10/562,570
Abstract

An air freshener package for containing an air freshener and a fragrance emitting substance. The blister type package has one compartment for the air freshener unit and another sample compartment forming a bubble or blister for a separate sample of the scent emitting material. The air freshener unit and sample compartment have a corresponding fragrance. The sample compartment forms a pressure responsive selected area on the package and is designed of a rupturable ventable material. The sample compartment can be deformed by finger pressure decreasing the volume of the compartment and thereby causing a puff of scented air to exhaust to atmosphere through a discharger opening. In an alternate embodiment, the finger pressure is sufficient to rupture a fragrance containing bead filled with fragrance air or liquid which emits a fragrance which is released through a vent or a pin hole formed in the second sample compartment to the environment. The user can sample the product while the integrity and seal of the air freshener unit and fragrance substance therein remains intact and fresh.

Claims (4)

1 . A package for an air freshener unit intended primarily for use in the cabin of a motor vehicle and containing a scent emitting material, said package comprising respective front and rear panels shaped to provide there between a first and a second spaced apart pair of compartments for retaining therein respectively an air freshener unit having material that emits a preselected scent and a sample of the material that produces that same scent, said second compartment having an outlet opening communicating therewith and discharging to atmosphere and a finger pressure responsive selected area on said package enabling discharging to atmosphere a puff of the scented air from said second compartment upon applying finger pressure to that selected area.

2 . The package as defined in claim 1 wherein said panels each have a truncated conical portion projecting therefrom, wherein said truncated conical projections are disposed in internested relation defining there between said second compartment.

3 . The package as defined in claim 1 wherein said second compartment is located in a tab that projects outwardly from the peripheral edge of the package.

4 . The package comprising respective front and rear panels so shaped as to provide there between a first and a second spaced apart pair of compartments, an air freshener unit located in said first compartment and having material that emits a preselected scent, a sample of said scent producing material that produces that same scent located in said second compartment, said second compartment having an outlet opening communicating therewith and discharging to atmosphere and a finger pressure responsive selected area on said package enabling discharging to atmosphere a puff of scented air from said second compartment upon applying finger pressure to that selected area.

Assignments (5)
RELEASE OF PATENT SECURITY AGREEMENT Recorded Sep 15, 2011
From: BANK OF AMERICA, N.A.
To: ASHLAND, INC.; ASHLAND LICENSING AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LLC; AQUALON COMPANY; HERCULES INCORPORATED
Reel/Frame 026927/0247 →
SECURITY AGREEMENT Recorded Apr 14, 2010
From: ASHLAND LICENSING AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LLC; AQUALON COMPANY; HERCULES INCORPORATED
To: BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., AS ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT
Reel/Frame 024225/0289 →
RELEASE OF SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Apr 13, 2010
From: BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., AS COLLATERAL AGENT
To: ASHLAND LICENSING AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LLC; AQUALON COMPANY; HERCULES INCORPORATED
Reel/Frame 024218/0928 →
SECURITY AGREEMENT Recorded Dec 3, 2008
From: ASHLAND LICENSING AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY...; AQUALON COMPANY; HERCULES INCORPORATED
To: BANK OF AMERICA, N.A. AS ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT
Reel/Frame 021924/0001 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 27, 2008
From: D'AMICO, DANIEL
To: ASHLAND LICENSING AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, LLC (ALIP)
Reel/Frame 020581/0675 →